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China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
Amruta Karambelkar

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed power play amongst nations. The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a race of sorts to provide essential medical supplies and in the second year, a competition for vaccines is underway. Vaccine diplomacy,...

August 20, 2021 Download
Tags: ASEAN, Chinese Vaccines, COVAX, COVID-19, Sinopharm, Sinovac, Southeast Asia, Vaccine Diplomacy, China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Quagmire in Lebanon: Between Domestic Mismanagement and External Interference
Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF

Lebanon in the current decade has witnessed pressing economic instability, political turmoil, large scale protests, and clashes with security officials, fires and explosion exposing the gross mismanagement and the incapacity of the present...

May 28, 2021 Download
Tags: Beirut Port Blast, Confessionalism, COVID-19, French Inititiative, Harari government, Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon, International Relations and Diplomacy
Reforms for Atmanirbhar Bharat
Aayush Mohanty

COVID-19 has exposed the serious strategic implications of India’s import dependence, especially on China. Politics, Policy and Pandemic are the challenges to Prime Minister Modi’s vision of Atmanirbharta (self-reliance). While the initiative is...

February 7, 2021 Download
Tags: Boycott China, COVID-19, economy, LAC, Reforms for Atmanirbhar Bharat, Self-reliance, trade, Governance and Political Studies
Post Covid-19 World Order: An Overview
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described to be the greatest challenge for the world since the Great Depression and the Second World War. No country and its people had anticipated that they would have to deal with a crisis of such a large scale....

November 9, 2020 Download
Tags: China, COVID-19, Covid-19 Crisis, European Union, Pandemic, Post Covid-19 World Order, WHO, World War II, International Relations and Diplomacy
A Guide to India-Australia Relations
Amruta Karambelkar

For the first time in India’s diplomatic history a summit was held on a virtual platform. On 4th June 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed a range of issues with his Australian counterpart, Prime Minister Scott Morrison. This summit is...

June 22, 2020 Download
Tags: Australia, China, COVID-19, India, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, International Relations, Maritime Security, QUAD, Terrorism
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